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From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive not accessible
Message-ID: <14minqINNo3g@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:20:26 GMT
References: <TMH.92Jul23041936@keks.first.gmd.de>
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu


In article <TMH.92Jul23041936@keks.first.gmd.de> tmh@keks.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) writes:
> ... Any attempt to
>read /dev/ras4a results in an error. cat </dev/ras4a returns "bad file
>descriptor"....


Thos Sumner reported that the major device number for target four (files
/dev/ras4a and /dev/ras4d) were set to the WRONG number (11, not 13).
This stands out like a sore thumb if you do an "ls -l /dev/ras*".


Bill.